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To: i-node who wrote (435053)	11/15/2008 2:45:30 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573213

Still, it wasn't common. My thinking about the Weather Underground at the time was that they were incompetent and stupid (and frankly went against the anti-war movement which was almost entirely non-violent). There was no way a few random violent acts were going to stop the Vietnam War (if I thought they would I would have been first in line). Political pressure was much more likely to be effective, and mass non-violent demonstrations worked somewhat towards those ends. My guess is that YOU were anti-war at the time... just a hunch. At the time we were killing thousands every week and 100's of our soldiers were dying every week. Made Iraq look like a picnic. There was a real desperation to end it. Some idiots went overboard; what's new? It's well behind us and should be. In the scheme of things, as things stood in those days, the Weather Underground was a "pimple on our ass", probably less. I suspect you know that. (In any case the Ayres thing had no traction. Shouldn't have. Just a political thing in Chicago where the pols rub elbows with every type of person and take pride in it. Makes the world interesting.)